West Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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lli p ip I E tpeteptttuvcii i fi ll Eliisinrg nf the Qllztss uf 1925 CSocrates and a student seated on steps of boy's entrance, in conferencej Socrates: A'Well, Student, now that your high school days are nearly over, how does it feel? Student: Feel? Oh, just about as usual, I don't think much about gradua- tion. I'll be glad to get away from Fairmont, but I'm really sorry high school is over. I've had a darn good time here. Socrates: As you look back on your high school years, what strikes you as the most important thing you've gotten out of Fairmont? Student: That's easy. It's friends. I've made a whole bunch of wonderful friends here, and they're more important than studies. or anything else. Socrates: I suppose you think your class is better than all the rest, don't you? Student: Well, it's a good class. I don't know whether it's better than any other, but, then, I haven't seen many others. We have a great class in some ways. We have a couple of famous men in our class. Socrates: Who, for example? Student: Well, Frank Reed got married: Patsy Tork was a good athlete: Brady Knight played football and basketball four years and was captain of basketball in '25. Socrates: HYes. But is athletics the biggest thing in high school? Student: Well, it's not the biggest thing, perhaps, but it is very important these days. All fall, you don't think of anything but football, and in the spring-well, it's some other sport. Socrates: 'lThat's the trouble with high school. Too much athletics. I-Iaven't you any student that has done big things in other ways? Student: O, yes, we've got people in literary things like The Latin Club and The Torch Club, and we have students in Dramatics Club and the Culee Club. We even have a couple of debaters, but nobody cares much about them. Socrates: All classes have people in things like that. What's your class done that has been distinctive? Student: We put on the best Junior Prom. in the Fairmont Hotel that Fair- mont ever saw. And then we had the Junior play-but nothing need be said about it. Socrates: Even that wasn't permanent. Student: Well, when you come right down to it, I suppose we haven't done an awful lot. The history of our Class is really only the history of the Page 45

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ll ' ll6lPl.6LGflUE3Z ' K 'Kill high school while we have been here. Our class hasn't done much in itself. Socrates: What has happened worth remembering in the history of the high school during the last four years? Student: We got a new gymnasium, for one thing. Socrates: Anything else? Student: Well, high school life has had it's ups and downs. We've had our fads, Shifters and Gobblers-and now the Charleston. Socrates: Oh, yes. That's all true enough. But you've missed the point. VN'hat high school has done for you and your class is to weed out the students that weren't felt-that couldn't stand the pace. You started with one hundred eighty-four. Now there are only one hundred thirty-five. That shows what has happened. You are the essence that is left after a severe fractional distillation. You have been getting ready for your future. Your history hasn't started yet. You're just beginning life. What you do in the years to come is the history of the class of 1926. It will be made by what you and your classmates do from now on. It won't be finished until you are all dead and gone, and really not until you are forgotten. Do you see the point? Student: Yes, I do. Socrates: Well, if you love your class, and Fairmont, you should try to make that history a great history, make it something worth being remembered. ,llillll I if W' ll, .. ' ' ,ff . 1 P- 1 ' E Page 46